Each year, Real Art Ways reviews the year's Step
Up open call submissions and selects their
favorites. This year we chose 62 artists whose
work will be on view during this one night
exhibition. Images of these works will be
projected at Real Art Ways during Creative
Cocktail Hour on January 20, 2011 from 6-8pm.
Congratulations to the 2010 Slide Slammers!
http://www.realartways.org/visualarts.htm

January
25

Sheila Geoffrion, painter, spoke Tuesday, January
25 at 11:00 a.m. in Viewing Room 1 in the basement of White Hall on
the Midtown Campus. She has a B.F.A. from Florida State University
and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania where she
studied with Rudy Burkhardt and Neil Welliver.

Upon graduation she moved to Maine where she has been painting ever
since. In her 20 year marriage to Neil Welliver her home and studio
were the center of the burgeoning landscape movement with continuing
interaction with artists such as Yvonne Jacquette, John Moore, Lois
Dodd, Rudy Bukhardt, Wolf Kahn, Richard Estes and Alex Katz, all of
which created a context and consciousness for the development of her
unique sensibility.

While primarily residing in Maine, she maintains studios in Florida
and Ireland, the disparate flora of which also inspire her work. She
says of her process:

“The initial inspiration to paint happens for me outdoors when I
directly observe nature, … I am inspired by the contrasts and the
particularities between the northern forests and fields of Maine and
the tropical and sub-tropical flora found in Florida and in the
southwest regions of Ireland.

“My sketches and partial starts to painting s are made on site,
including the layout onto larger canvases. I often make larger
format watercolors at the same time, which help to inform me on the
subject matter at hand. I return several times during the short span
of time the “arrangement” survives. I record what I can directly on
the canvas or paper and complete the work in the studio at a later
time.”

Shelia Geoffrion exhibits in Maine and Florida. She exhibited
regularly at the well-known O’Farrell Gallery in Brunswick, ME until
its closing and now shows frequently at the Caldbeck Gallery in
Rockland. Her work is in the collection of the Farnsworth Museum in
Rockland and the Portland Museum of Art and many prestigious private
collections.

January
28

Phyllis Boger MFA '02 announced that she
has Landscape paintings at the upstairs South Gallery at
Playhouse on the Square, 66 South Cooper St., Memphis, TN 38104
Jan 28 from 5-7 pm.

FEBRUARY
1 - 26

February 5

February 13

Chris Durante '82 is in THE
GUY SHOW at the Art Place Gallery, An invitational show curated by
Gerald Saladyga

ARTPLACE
11 Unquowa Road, Fairfield, CT 06824
(203) 292-8328 info@artplace.org
The public is welcome to all gallery events and openings, free of
charge.
For further information, or to be put on our mailing list, please
email us at info@artplace.org
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 AM - 5:30 PM and by appointment

February
2011

Mary Lou Alberetti '64
wants everyone to know that the Book is published. She writes, "It
is a pleasure to share with you that I've been included in author
Ashley Rooney's 100 Artists of New England. Go to Amazon or Schiffer
Books/Contemporary Art/Ashley Rooney."

Click on the image to
see larger view plus works.

February
8

Janet DeCarlo, Artists Representative spoke Tuesday, February 8 at 11:00 a.m. in Viewing Room 1 in
the basement of White Hall on the Midtown Campus. Janet got her BA in
Graphic Design at Western Connecticut State University, where she
graduated magna cum Laude in 1994. She is the owner and president
of Storybook Arts, an Artists Representative Agency where she is
oversees the sales and promotion of 25 contracted professional
artists specializing in the children’s illustration field, and is
responsible for securing illustration assignments for artists with
existing and new publishing clients. In the past she has been
associated with Portfolio Solutions and Publishers Graphics, both
highly regarded Artist’s Agencies.

February
12

March 13

The Silo Gallery at Hunt Hill Farm in New
Milford has a show featuring Eight artists who are also Art Teachers
in New Milford will exhibit paintings, drawings, prints and ceramic
sculpture in The Main Gallery, including Heidi Fair '93 and Kim
Tester (former adjunct art professor at WestConn). February 12
- March 13, 2011 Opening Reception: February 19, 3 to 5 p.m.
Gallery Talk by New Milford VIII March 13th, 2:00

February
12

My Dad's Truck, a local acoustic trio playing free-range
Americana roots music, will perform Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. at
Molten Java Coffeehouse
at 102 Greenwood Ave., Bethel. The band will be picking and singing
audience favorites, some oft-forgotten gems and love songs in honor
of St. Valentine's Day. Members are Susan Lang '87 of Woodbury, Leif
Smith of Redding and Bill Wisnowski of Danbury. Wisnowski will be
back at Molten Java Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 p.m., for his
monthly solo show. For details on the band, visit
www.mydadstruck.com or call
Wisnowski at 203-994-1903, or Smith at 203-788-5222. For details on
Molten Java, visit
moltenjavaevents.com or call 203-739-0313 (Wendy
Cahill '95).

February
22

William Bailey, Painter spoke Tuesday, February 22 at 11:00 a.m. in Viewing Room 1 in
the basement of White Hall on the Midtown Campus. William Bailey studied at
Yale where he received both his B.F.A. and M.F.A degrees. He
is known particularly for his still-life paintings. Although unlike
other still-life painters, Bailey composes his paintings on the
canvas from his imagination, adjusting the light source and relative
scale of each object as he paints.

Writing in the New York
Times, Karen Rosenberg says:

“William Bailey, who studied with Josef Albers and
taught at Yale for decades, is one of painting’s undersung
veterans. He makes convincingly volumetric still lifes
and figurative tableaus, working mostly from mental
pictures. His art hasn’t changed much in the last few decades, but
its discipline and concentration are exemplary.

Mr. Bailey’s still lifes have a touch of Morandi’s
austerity; his figurative works, meanwhile, evoke the perfect
proportions in Ingres and the awkward sensuality of Balthus. He’s a
classicist, in other words, but his influence extends
in some ultra-contemporary directions;
John Currin and
Lisa Yuskavage are among his former students.”

In the New Criterion, James Panero writes:

“The meaning of Bailey’s work as it relates to
the history of art has been a subject of debate since his
painting first appeared on the cover of Newsweek in the early
1980s. At the time Bailey was hailed as one of the new
artists ‘of the real.’ … Like Giorgio Morandi, another great modern
realist, Bailey imbues quiet paintings with intense energy.
… Bailey’s work is so surprising, so novel, when compared to the
canon of modern art because its fecundity shows no limit or
irony.”

William Bailey’s work can be seen in a host of public and private
collections, most notably the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern
Art, New York, NY; the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; National
Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; and
the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. Bailey is the
subject of two monographs, one by Mark Strand and the other by John
Hollander and Guiliano Briganti. He has been exhibiting in New York
since the late 1960’s. He lives and works in New Haven, Connecticut
and Umbria, Italy.

February
24, 25 & 26

Eileen Mooney MFA '06
has been teaching math at Miss
Porter's School for the last three years, and have been involved
with set design in their theatre department for two. This year we
are putting on Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, as a puppet theatre
production. Eileen has been leading a crew in making 14 half-size
human puppets and a few supernatural puppets for the show on
February 24 and 25 at 7:30, and on the 26th at 2:00. 60 Main
Street, Farmington, CT 06032 860-409-3631

Joel will be illustrating a children's book for The American Cancer
Society and is up for two more children's books starting this
spring.

Garry Camp Burdick has his work in the poster for
the Film Fest out of New Milford. He writes, "Note the photo of
hands and eye glasses is one of mine from the Norman Rockwell series
(his hands). Click on it to see credit. Delve into the sight to read
more about it."

Pat
Lindgren, Artists Rep.
spoke Tuesday, March 8 at 11:00 a.m. in Viewing Room 1 in the
basement of White Hall on the Midtown Campus. Pat
Lindgren is president of Lindgren and Smith inc., a New York agency
that represents 50 illustrators. Ms. Lindgren was educated as a fine
artist at University of Michigan and Cooper Union. After
graduation, she worked as a photographer’s assistant and silkscreen
printer. In her printmaking work, she collaborated on limited
editions with such artists as Helen Frankenthaler, Robert Motherwell
and Claus Oldenburg. She has been representing illustrators for
the last 25years. She views the agent/artist relationship as a
partnership. "My job is to present the artist's work in the best
possible way. I connect artists with new clients, and reconnect
with old clients every day. My work can be as simple as writing up
the assignment and making sure that the terms are clearly spelled
out and agreed on, or as complex as writing and reading contracts
that can have very long term effects of the artist's income. In the
end though my job is to make sure that both the client and the
artist are happy.”

March 15

Portrait Demonstration by
Alain Picard '97
March 15, Tuesday 7:00 - 9:30pm
Location: Picard StudioCost: free
Using the live model, Alain demonstrated a pastel portrait from
start to finish. Throughout the process, Alain will explain his
simple approach to portrait painting which emphasizes relationships
of shapes, values, and edges. Along the way, Alain will share his
insights on color and composition as well. Space is limited. Please
email or call Picard Studio to reserve a seat.

Don
Kimes, Painter
spoke Friday, April 1 at 11:00 a.m. in Viewing Room 1 in the
basement of White Hall on the Midtown Campus. Artist-educator, Don Kimes will discuss a haunting body of work, which varies from
realist landscape painting to large iconic metal pieces and intimate
mixed media collages. The variety of techniques and styles are
unified by a consistent obsession with the process of nature and the
passage of time. Mr. Kimes’ work has been exhibited nationally and
internationally, including at the Chautauqua Institution, the
National Academy of Science, the New York Studio School, the
Baltimore Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, Kouros Gallery, Denise Bibro
Gallery, Extra Moenia di Giulan Dorazio in Todi, Italy and the
National Academy of Design and the Corcoran. In both 2001 and 2003
he received the Medici Medal at the Florence Biennale. He has an
upcoming exhibit scheduled at the Palazzo Maidoff in Florence this
fall.

Don
Kimes has served as director of the prestigious New York Studio
School, as Chairman of the Art Department at American University, as
founder and director of the American University M.F.A. program in
Italy, and as Artistic Director of the Visual Arts at the Chautauqua
Institution. Each of these institutions has received national and
international recognition under his leadership. In 2004, he
received the American University award for “Outstanding
Contributions to Academic Development.” He is a member of the
Advisory Board of the M.F.A. program at Western Connecticut State
University.

His
contribution to the book “Interruptio” published in 2010 in Italy
will be the subject of his lecture “The Continuity of Painting: The
Necessity of Interruption”

April 9

Plonia Nixon won an award to the Richter Association for the Arts
Member show and sale.

The show opened April 9 with a special reception for artists and
closes April 17. The show is open both weekends from 2 pm until 5 pm.

Also in the show are MaryAnn Meken Silvestri '76 and ShawnaLee
Waterbury Kwashnak '96

April 12

Tom Kidd, Illustrator
spoke Tuesday, April 12 at 11:00 a.m. in Viewing Room 1 in the
basement of White Hall on the Midtown Campus.
Tom Kidd, an award-winning illustrator, received a scholarship to
Syracuse University, for his fantasy illustrations. After attending
for two years, he left for New York, where he pursued illustration
full time.

His most recent publications include two technique books titled
“Other Worlds: How to Draw and Paint Epic Scenes” from Impact Books
and “How to Draw and Paint Dragons”. He is also the subject of a
monograph titled “Kiddography; The Art and Life of Tom Kidd” from
Paper Tiger Books. He has worked for a number of publishers
including Baen Books, Random House, DAW Books, Warner Books,
Doubleday, Ballantine Books, Marvel Comics and Tor Books. He has
illustrated two books: "The Three Musketeers" (1998 - William
Morrow) and "The War of the Worlds” (2001 - Harper Collins), and
there are two books of his art: "The Tom Kidd Sketchbook” (1990 -
Tundra) and “Kiddography: The Art & Life of Tom Kidd” (2005 – Paper
Tiger).

His art has won him a World Fantasy Award (Best Artist 2004) and
seven Chesley Awards.

Kidd has also done design work for film, theme parks, entertainment
products, and all types of conceptual design work for such clients
as Walt Disney, Rhythm & Hues and Universal Studios. His work has
been displayed in a wide array of venues, including The Delaware Art
Museum, The Society of Illustrators and the Science Fiction Museum &
Hall of Fame.

April 26

Stanley Lewis, Painter was at the Weir Farm on Tuesday, April 26. Stanley Lewis, who has an
impressive reputation among painters and is one of the most highly
respected art educators in the country, has M.F.A. and B.F.A.
degrees from Yale and a B.A. from Wesleyan. He was the
recipient of a Danforth Fellowship from 1963-67.

He has been a teacher
and/or visiting artist at Chautauqua Institute in New York, Smith
College, Queens College, Vermont Studio Center, Swarthmore College,
Dartmouth College, The New York Studio School, Bard College,
Wesleyan University, Mount Holyoke, Yale University, Chicago of Art
Institute, Vassar College, Haverford College and the Minneapolis
College of Art and Design. From 1990 to 2002, he was professor
of painting and drawing at American University in Washington, D.C.
He exhibits widely on a national level, and had a significant
exhibition at Salander O’Reilly Gallery in New York, in 2004. In
2007, he had a major retrospective at the American University
Museum, much of which traveled to the Visual Arts Center in Summit
New Jersey. In 2002 he received the Benjamin Altman prize for
landscape painting, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005.

Writing about his most
recent one-person show at the Lohin Geduld Gallery in the Wall St
Journal, Lance Esplund says:

“Stanley
Lewis … sometimes works over the course of years on a single drawing
or painting. The exactitude, transfixing light, and deep, rushing
spaces of his landscapes—often made up of cut and layered pieces of
paper or canvas, and reconfigured with staples or glue—make up for
their tattered states… Fueled by faithfulness, fortitude and
precision, Mr. Lewis's drawings and paintings are among the most
exhilarating landscapes being produced today.”

April 27

Senior Thesis Exhibition

The Senior Thesis Exhibition is opens
in Higgins Hall on Wednesday, April 27 with a reception from 6 - 8
pm. The show continues through May 12 with hours from 12 - 4 pm
Monday through Thursday. Click
here to see pictures from the reception.

Maryann Meken-Silvestri '76,
has work on display at an “Open
House” at New Milford’s 30 Bridge Street building (formerly known as
the Merritt Beach & Son Building), now listed in the National
Registry of Historic Places, beginning Friday, May 20th hosted
by Jack & John Farley, Farley Properties, the current owners who
restored the building in 2004.
Click here to see pictures from the opening. The work is up
through July.

Catherine Vanaria,
WCSU photography professor and Danbury small business owner, who
spent time during the summer of 2010 photographing a hat collection
at the Danbury Museum & Historical Society Authority . Her work
inspired an exhibit being displayed at the museum through October
15, 2011. The exhibit can be viewed on at the museum on Main Street
in Danbury Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm.

“Once we viewed Cathy's exceptional photographs, we knew that the
women’s hat collection had to be seen by the public. These hats are
works of art,” stated Executive Director, Brigid Guertin.

Over 300 ladies hats from the museum collection will showcase hat
design from the colonial period through the mid-20th
century. The exhibit includes highly entertaining wall of historic
newspaper advertisements and city directory listings related to the
millinery trade in Danbury. Vintage photos and antique postcards
from museum archives illustrate styles and trends.

Isabelle Day at the First Street
Gallery
526 W.26th Street, suite 209/ New York , NY 10001 / 646.336.8053 /
www.firststreet.gallery.net
for the 2011 National Juried Competition
June 22 – July 16, Reception: June 25, 3- 5 pm

June 2011

Charles Gehm has a
painting "Break of Day" selected to be shown in the Oil
Painters of America's 20th Annual National Juried Exhibition of
Traditional Oils to be held in June at Devin Galleries in Coeur
d’Alene, Idaho.

June 2011

Ed Little has a painting
'Natasha' selected for the Oil Painters of America's 20th Annual
National Juried Exhibition of Traditional Oils to be held in June at
Devin Galleries in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho"

Linda Rynkowski, MFA '12 is exhibiting at the upcoming
CCNS 49th Annual Art Show in Rowayton, CT from June 9-12th.
The 49th Annual Art Show will include works by established and
emerging artists. The French Salon style Art Show offers one of
the biggest and most diverse selections of original art for sale
in Fairfield County, bringing in close to two hundred thousand
dollars in sales over a four day period.
Community Cooperative Nursery School (CCNS), 4 Trolley Place,
Rowayton, CT 06853

June 10

Laura McCormick '84, Maryann Meken-Silvestri '76 and Plonia
Nixon are in the Art of Caring on June 10, 2011! This annual show
has great artwork and supports Regional Hospice. This year
Laura is the featured artist.

David Boyajian in
the "Paint on Metal Exhibition"
Opening Saturday June 25, 2011 at 2pm-6pm.

A group show of wall art and various sizes of sculpture all created
with metal and paint.

It will be a colorful exhibition.

June 28

Alain Picard '97 is offering a free Demonstration at Picard Studio
in Southbury, CT on Tuesday, June 28, 2011 at 7:00-9:30pm

Using the live model, Alain will demonstrate a pastel portrait from
start to finish. Throughout the process, Alain will explain his
simple approach to portrait painting which emphasizes relationships
of shapes, values, and edges. Along the way, Alain will share his
insights on color and composition as well. Space is limited.

Maryann Meken-Silvestri '76 is part of The exhibit "4 Artists -- 4
Journeys" an exhibit open to the public until early
August at Danbury City Hall. The following is a
notice from The News Times: The artists are
Vincent Albano,
Shelley Lowell and
Maryann Meken-Silvestri '76, all of Danbury, and
Emilya Padlowski, of Ridgefield.

Albano paints with watercolors at night in his
basement, a "peaceful time in solitude," he says,
"except for the occasional spider that might
drop by."

Lowell uses oil with a wax medium in stylized,
allegorical landscapes that "express my reaction to
injustices I see around me," she says. Each piece is
paired with an original poem.

Meken-Silvestri works in fused glass, using a
kiln and replicating or improving upon "techniques
adapted from the ancients." Fragile pieces of glass,
she says, "all bond to form sparkle and strength."

Padlowski is an interior designer, artist and art
historian who began her training in the Soviet
Union. Her eclectic work includes murals, painted
furniture and soft sculpture.

The free exhibit, which opened with a reception
Wednesday, can be seen through Aug. 4 during normal
business hours at City Hall, 155 Deer Hill Ave.:
Monday to Wednesday from 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and
Thursday from 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Marcella Kurowski '05 opens in the
Forest To Shore Gallery for the opening night of exhibit on Friday,
July 15 • 5:00pm - 11:00pm entitled "Ad Libitum." FTS Gallery is
proud to display the newest works from this very talented artist and
longtime friend.
FTS Gallery
2415 Main Street 2nd Floor
Stratford, CT

FIRST STREET GALLERY is pleased to present the 2011 MFA Juried
Exhibition, July 21 to August 10, the first in a series of
annual exhibitions open exclusively to MFA students throughout
the United States. Juried by SAIC Professor and artist Susanna
Coffey, the exhibition features paintings, drawings, prints,
mixed media and sculpture. Opening reception July 21 from 5 -
8 pm.

Gallery Hours: 11 am - 6 pm, Tuesday through Saturday

526 West 26th Street, Suite 209,
(PLEASE NOTE: moved from Suite 95) New York, New York, 10001
646-336-8053
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First Street Gallery is located in the heart of Chelsea, NYC
between 10th & 11th Avenues.

is a guest artist at
Gallery One at the Clayhouse August 16 through October 14.
The reception is September 9 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm. GalleryOne is
located at 665 Boston Post Road at Elm Street (Old Saybrook
Shopping Center).
Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday:10am -5:30pm,
Thursdays:10am-8pm, Sundays:12-5pm. Phone 860-388-0907

A triennial exhibition features work by award-winning faculty of
the Visual Arts Department, both full time and adjunct studio
professors.
Karen and Derek are both adjunct teachers at Eastern.
Akus Gallery, Shafer Hall, Room 1, Lower Level
83 Windham Street
Willimantic, CT 06226

from the article: Burdick's successful career in photography
reads like a `Who's Who of the
Art World.' His iconic photographs of his morning with
Norman Rockwell in the painter's studio were exhibited at the
Smithsonian's
National Portrait Gallery and are now part of its
permanent collection. For more information on "West to Big
Water: A Civil War Aftermath," visit
www.garrycampburdick.com
or Amazon.com.

Missy will be illustrating the upcoming book and CD for Colonel
Purple Turtles Purple Turtle Journal due out September
2011.

SepT 9

MFA VISUAL ARTS VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES: Painting critic John Arthur will discuss his work at 11 a.m.
in Viewing Room 1 of White Hall on the WCSU Midtown campus, 181
White St. in Danbury. The event will be free and open to the public,
and it will be presented as part of the university's Master of Fine
Arts visiting artist lecture series. For more information, call
(203) 837-8881.

Sept
10-24

Doug Friday MFA '11 joined
The 4th Annual Easthampton, Massachusetts "Paint Out" A Plein Air
Competition Sept. 3-10 2011 and has an exhibition of his work at The
Nashawannuck Gallery
in Easthampton, Massachusetts from Sept. 10-24 2011.

MFA VISUAL ARTS VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES: Illustrator Robert Crawford will discuss his work at 11 a.m.
in Viewing Room 1 of White Hall on the WCSU Midtown campus, 181
White St. in Danbury. The event will be free and open to the public,
and it will be presented as part of the university's Master of Fine
Arts visiting artist lecture series. For more information, call
(203) 837-8881.

Sept 8

Sept 24 - Oct 28

Ridgefield Guild of Artists 34th Annual Juried ExhibitionCALL FOR ENTRIES
The Guild is pleased to announce that noted creative director and
gallery owner Cynthia Reeves will be the juror for this year's 34th
Annual Juried Show.

The Juried Show showcases artists in all media from the regional
area. Receiving for the show starts September 8. The show opens
September 24 and runs through October 28.

Artists and Musicians are invited to paint and play in the landscape
at Blue Horse Arts and Jay Foster Music Studios!

Jay Foster will be offering a free demonstration and introductory
workshop on using Field Recording and Granular Synthesis to create
new soundscapes and ambient compositions. Participants will have the
opportunity to observe the use of music technology to record and
re-sculpt sounds collected from the wetlands area outside of the
studio.

The “Hemingway Pond Paint Out” will be held simultaneously and is
open to artists of all abilities. Instructor/Artist
Bridget Grady will be on hand to assist
those with less experience. Bring your own paints, sketching
materials, and cameras and enjoy the natural beauty that lays hidden
right in the center of town. Some easels are available on a limited
basis, but it is advised that you bring your own.

Blue Horse Arts and
JFoster Music Studios are located on the edge of Hemingway Pond near
the center of Watertown, in the old factory space known locally as
the MRCO building. Entrance to the studios is on 250 Porter Street.
Beautiful views of the wetlands and wildlife are available outside
in the fresh air or from inside the studio complex. The events will
be held rain or shine. We are fortunate to be able to paint the
landscape inside or out and year round from the window views of the
studio complex. The “ Hemingway Pond Paint Out” and “Music
Technology” demonstration is free and open to the public, but
registration with the studios is required.( Just so we know how much
coffee to brew:)!) The "Hemingway Paint Out" date is Sunday morning
9AM- Noon, September 25th. The Field Recording and Granular
Synthesis demo and workshop will be held also on September 25th 9AM-
NOON.
For more information and registration call 860-417-3243 or visit
www.bluehorsearts.comwww.jfostermusic.com

Oct 4

MFA VISUAL ARTS VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES: Painter Betsy Garand will discuss her work at 11 a.m. in
Viewing Room 1 of White Hall on the WCSU Midtown campus, 181 White
St. in Danbury. The event will be free and open to the public, and
it will be presented as part of the university's Master of Fine Arts
visiting artist lecture series. For more information, call (203)
837-8881

Oct 14 -
Oct 30

Oct 14

Maryann
Meken-Silvestri '76 , For the 8th consecutive year
is having a show featuring fused glass art, giftware, tableware,
wall panels & jewelry with artists Judy Mirrer of
Middlebury and Linda Banks of
New Preston at The White Silo Farm
and Winery, Rte. 37E in Sherman, CT. The show opens on Fri., Oct.
14th and runs weekends thru Sun., Oct. 30th.
Gallery hours are Fri., Sat. and Sun. 11:00am – 6:00pm. An artist’s
reception will take place on Sat. Oct. 15th from 1:00pm –
4:00pm. The White Silo is located at 32 Rte. 37E in Sherman, CT
For directions, call the winery at (860) 355-0271. For further
information regarding the show or artists email Maryann at
mmrms1@comcast.net or call (203) 778-3982.

MFA VISUAL ARTS VISITING ARTIST LECTURE SERIES: Illustrator Michael Whelen will discuss his work at 11 a.m.
in Viewing Room 1 of White Hall on the WCSU Midtown campus, 181
White St. in Danbury. The event will be free and open to the public,
and it will be presented as part of the university's Master of Fine
Arts visiting artist lecture series. For more information, call
(203) 837-8881

…an exhibition that celebrates and interprets the definition of
groundbreaking. Faculty, Students, and Alumni or
Western Connecticut
State University were asked to respond with works of art,
individually or through class projects, that evoke the energy of the
event. The process of breaking new ground was also the inspiration
for the students who helped in the curatorial decisions of hanging
this show.

Sunday, October 23 at 10:00am at Silvermine School of Art, New
Canaan, CT. In The Big Brush Workshop™you will re-connect
to your creativity! •The fun environment encourages play and
experimentation. •There is no right or wrong way and there
are no rules. •No experience is necessary. •The results will
suprise and astonish you! (Yes, that includes you!). Your
creativity is waiting . . . make the time to claim yours!
Register by October 19! 203-966-6668 x 2 Cost $130 Paint and
Paper supplied. Bring lunch and a wide flat brush about 2"
More Questions: carmen.lund@gmail.com

Oct 28 -
Dec 1

Bridget Grady MFA '04,
Anne Flynn MFA '04,
Matang Gonzales '86,
Ginger Hanrahan MFA '07 and
Lee Cordon MFA '04 are
participating in a show at Blue Horse Arts Gallery in Watertown, CT.
The theme of the exhibition is to promote awareness of the
connection between food, culture, and the environment, thinking
globally and acting locally. The conceptual thread of this
exhibition is based on the outreach and entanglement of artists,
farmers, the environment, and community through mutual exchange.
Blue Horse Arts Studio and the JFosterMusic Studio complex located
at 250 Porter Street in Watertown, CT will host an interdisciplinary
visual art and music event “Field Projects” to celebrate our
connections to the natural world. The public is invited to an
opening exhibition Friday, October 28th, 7PM- 9PM. Refreshments
will be provided. Music will be provided by
FosterMusic.com,
a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and music teacher based in
Watertown CT. Click here to see
pictures from the opening.

Nov
1-30

Nov 3

Linda Rynkowski MFA '12 sold one painting out of five exhibited
at the annual CCNS show in Rowayton, CT which ran from June 6th
-12th.
http://ccnsartshow.com

She is having a show at the Darien Rowayton Bank from Tuesday
November 1st through Wednesday November 30th. The opening will
be held on Thursday, November 3rd from 4 - 6 pm.

Robert Alberetti is showing paintings and works on paper at the Atlas
fine arts services, 41 South 6th Ave in Tuscan AZ. The exhibit
continues through Nov 26. Gallery hours are Tuesday through
Thursday 11 to 6, Friday and Saturday 11 to 7.

Nov 17 -
dec 10

Derek Leka MFA '07 is opening Six See, an exhibition
of paintings, photography and other images by faculty from the
Shintaro Akatsu School of Design at the University of Bridgeport.
The works will be on view starting with an opening reception 4:30pm
- Thursday, Nov. 17 at the University Gallery. The show runs until
Dec 10.

Works of Kelli Costa, John Kandalaft, Michael Kandalaft, Peter
Konsterlie, Derek Leka and Rick McCollum comprise the Six for you to
See.

Nov 29

Joan Kelly MFA '05 is presented "The Public Art of Joan Kelly"
at Maryland institute of Art for students.

Nov 29

MFA VISUAL ARTS VISITING ARTIST LECTURE
SERIES continues on Tuesday, Nov. 29 with Painter James McGarrell.
McGarrell will discuss his work at 11 a.m. in Viewing Room 1 of
White Hall. The event will be free and open to the public, and it
will be presented as part of the university's Master of Fine Arts
visiting artist lecture series. For more information, call x78881.
His work can be seen at
www.redwingstanza.com

Dec 2011

David Boyajian
finished the installation for the the Norwalk train station
commission. There are 17 cast aluminum sculptures installed on
the railing posts in the old station section. The sculptures are
3D narratives of Norwalk history."

The Norwalk Parking Authority invited artists to submit
proposals back in April for the SoNo station public art project.
In September the NPA chose the artists to create the permanent
installations. The team of David Boyajian, Matt Rink and Vincent
Appel are creating a series of aluminum sculptures that depict
the history of Norwalk, such as an oyster boat, lighthouse, hat
and hatbox. They will be installed on the railing post caps
throughout the station lobby.

Dec 3

Dec 3 - 30

Gulgon Aliriza MFA '07 is opened
Dec 3rd, 3 -
6 PM for a
2011 Group show at Blue Mountain
Gallery, New York, NY

Gallery hours are
Tuesday through Saturday, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM .
For more information please see our website at
www.bluemountaingallery.org
or call us at 646.486.4730.

Dec 8

Joan Kelly MFA '05 will present The Public Art of Joan
Kelly" for the undergraduate painting class at University of New
Hampshire.

Also on Dec 8, Joan will provide a
discussion on living and working in Asia to the graduate painting
program at University of New Hampshire.

photo by George McClintock, 2010

John Wallace,
Professor Emeritus of Art passed away Friday, April 15th.
In nearly 30 years of teaching in the
Art department, he was an inspiration to hundreds of
students.

There will be a memorial reception
on Wednesday, May 4th, 3:30-5:00pm, in the Higgins
Art Gallery. All former students are invited to attend.

John Wallace work at Higgins
Hall Gallery on the midtown campus from February 17 through March
10. There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday Feb. 17th
from 4-7pm.

Titled “John Wallace – 60 years of
Painting” the exhibition has representative paintings from a
decades long artistic career. Although somewhat different in scale
and scope, these works show a remarkable consistency in their
figuration, use of metaphor, and narrative content:
“…Wallace is nothing if not a consummately sophisticated painter,
capable of producing effects which can, and should, be savored for
their purely aesthetic qualities. That said, however, it is also
true that Wallace…brings to visual art a narrative gift so richly
novelistic that one can’t help pondering the possible meanings of
his compositions any more than ignore all the subtextual
implications in a complex prose passage from Nabakov or Updike.
Indeed, Wallace is one of our more intriguing post-modern
storytellers…”
Ed McCormack
Gallery & Studio, February 2007

John Wallace received a B.F.A. from Washington University and an
M.F.A. from Indiana University. He also studied at Skowhegan, where
he received a Margaret Tiffany Blake fellowship for creating a
fresco in the choir loft of the South Solon Meeting House, which is
now a historic landmark. He is also the recipient of a Huntingdon
Hartford Fellowship and a Roswell Museum Fellowship. His work is in
museums and significant private collections. From 1982 thru 2009 he
taught at Western Connecticut State University where he was
co-coordinator of the M.F.A. program from 2000 thru 2009.